re: Deer with a strong game flavor

yep. you can't get rid of the game taste, but you can infuse it with other flavors by cooking it down in a gravy, stuffing with peppers, etc.

If it's musk and shite you might be screwed but as far as gamey, the stuff I ate growing up was gamey as frick and I'm used to it and kind of enjoy it.

They were run by dogs and I always heard the build up of lactic acid or whatever when they were killed made em gamey.